Improvement in car and tender loading apparatus



U21.) JAMES WILLIAMS.

Improvement in Car amt Tender Loading Apparatus.-

Patented Dec. 26, 1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT CDZEEICEl JAMES WILLIAMS, OF BELLS DEPOT,TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR AND TENDER LOADING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,207, dated December26, 1871.

Specification describing a certain Improved Car and Tender LoadingApparatus, invented by JAMES WILLIAMS, oi' Bells Depot, in the county ofHaywood and State of Tennessee.

My invention consists in a box holdin g a sufficient quantity to loadthe tender with fuel or the car with freight, which box is pivoted on aframe higher than the-tender and car, so as to tilt toward the saidtender or car, and the side of the box which swings down is hinged so asto be let fall upon the top of the tender or car and form a chut-e forconducting the contents into the thing to be loaded. The ends oi' thishinged side have pieces similar to the end boards of the box, whichassume a vertical position when the side fallsI down, and form sides tothe chute, preventing the escape of the contents of the box over theends. For loading tenders, the box, which is much smaller than will berequired for discharging a car-load at once into a car, is arranged invertical ways and has a hoisting-drum and other necessary apparatus forlifting the box from the ground to the proper elevation for discharging;but for loading cars the freight should be as high as the box to be putinto it, or it may be carried up by elevators". The irarne supportingthis loadin apparatus is mounted on ear-wheels to be run along atemporary track, to facilitate the taking of the Wood or coal fromdiierent positions and convey ing the load to the proper place fordischarging.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved tender or car-loadingapparatus. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line x x of Fig. l.Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line y y of Fig. 1.

A is a frame of any suitable kind mounted on car-wheels B and madeconsiderably higher than the top of the tender or car to be loaded. C isthe box or charger for receiving the fuel or freight, as the case maybe, to be loaded. It is pivoted lengthwise at the center of the bottom,by a shaft or axle, D, to cross-pieces E .of the frame and arranged totilt over to the left, as seen in Fig. 2,

`but is prevented from tilting the other way by the beam F. The bar Garrests the box when tilted down far enough. The cross-pieces E are inthis instance fitted to slide up and down in grooves in the ends oftheframe for raising and lowering the box, and they are suspended onchainsH connected to a bar, I, which is suspended from the drum L by arope, K, and the chain is geared with suitable driving apparatus forwindin g up the rope and raising the box or unwinding it and letting thebox down. The' side M of the box is hinged to the bottom, as shown at N,and it is provided with end pieces O which close down by the ends of thebox when the side M is turned up to receive the substance to be loaded.The said sides and its ends are heldin this closedposition by the chainP hooking on to the pin Q on the bar F, and the box is held' again sttilting down by chain R in like manner. Bth of these chains aredisconnected.

when the box is to be discharged, and it tilts over at once by thegravity of the contents, the center of which is slightly on that side.The side M falls upon the top of one side of the tender or car, as thecase may be, and chutes the contents into said car or tender.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The tilting box C, having hinged side M with endpieces O O, combined with sliding-blocks E E, supporting-beam F, andgauge-bar G., when all are applied to aframe movable on the track of arailroad, as and for the purpose described.

JAMES WILLIAMS.

Witnesses: v

DAvn) A. NUNN,

' JOHN L. SHERMAN. (121)

